knowledge, which is what i think book bans are. they are banning knowledge, not just the books. this is not the time to be doing that, this is a time where we needed to know more than ever how we got to where we are. isabel wilkerson, i cannot thank you enough for this book. the country owes you a debt of gratitude for this book, as does the world. every just beyond our borders and tells as important a story as a book can. thank you very much for joining us tonight, the book is caste, the origins of our discontents. it is out in this new paperback edition tomorrow. we will continue to monitor tonight s situation in east michigan, at michigan state university. officials say that all campus activities are canceled for the next 48 hours, including all classes. in a tweet sent moments ago, university police said please do not come to campus tomorrow, they will be holding a press conference at 11 pm eastern, which you can see in the next hour here on msnbc. the situation, as we know it, n
regression we are now undergoing. joining us now is isabel wilkerson, pulitzer prize-winning journalist. her new york times bestselling book, cast, the origin of her are discontents is out in paperback tomorrow. thank you very much for being here tonight, we can never thank you enough. i learned so much as i did with this book, shaking in my hands a first time. with this update, what you have done for us, you re eager students, is shown us how events of the last two years fit in to this construct that you have given us in the book. you might have to do this every few years because we cannot figure this out ourselves, even your best students. well think about the world that this book and hurt when it was first released in 2020. we were in the midst of a global pandemic, the first few months of that. we were in the midst of a fraught political presidential
led by people who are terrified of their voters. if you re terrified of your voters you can t really like your voters very much, but they are afraid the only thing they have to fear is being primaried from the right, and they do not want to enrage the intense base and that makes them ineligible to talk to the broad middle. it s an old ax yum that american politics is healthiest when it takes place within the 40 yard lines and that s not where we are right now in the republican party. american happiness and discontents, the unruly torrent, 2008 to 2020 is out now in paperback. it will be available tomorrow. george will, thank you very much for coming on the show. it s great to see you. and still ahead on morning joe, what president biden calls the greatest lesson of 9/11. we ll play you his comments marking the 21st anniversary of the terror attacks. plus, a new measure of the pandemic s impact on school
could get in this senate environment but then republicans are now on the verge in some cases, like in arizona, and have already nominated people candidates that are flawed and that are struggling in these races already. so, that s why i think democrats are feeling a little bit better today, but there are a few more seven-week periods between now and november, so we ll see what happens. and i think also republicans have, you know, the combination of the dobbs decision, the two tragic mass shootings, and the hearings, and trump re-emerging in a big way in our politics, i think, has also given is defining the republican party in a way that has been that democrats think may be helpful in the fall, but you still have all these headwinds of the economy and other discontents, and the history that the governing party tends to lose seats in a midterm election. i ll just say, real quick, when people feel good about the trajectory, that is
discontents frankly they are going to freeze because russia said fine and cut them off and why the russians cut them off because they foolishly followed us as supply the ukrainians with weapons. tucker: so we put all of our credibility, the world economy all on this one chip called ukraine how was i going? i think were seeing the end of the global economy. we ve weaponize the goal global monetary system we largely dominated control now india, china, iran, many others countries not just russia people in latin america are beginning to say why should we do business with these americans. why do with the business with the dollar? so dollar denominated business is very much at risk. but we are lagging a little bit behind as you point out the same crises are coming in our